I also went for purples: kohlrabi, sprouting broccoli, burgundy pod bush beans, and Japanese radish. I have my fingers cross d as I’m starting a new garden on the Oregon coast.
It is such a beautiful colour! I am excited about purple bush beans, purple snap peas and purple kale this year. I was thinking of getting a lot of purple basil to use in my front lawn as ground cover but stopped myself.
Wanted to second West Coast rosemary seed. I've been starting my own rosemary for the past 5 years and WC really outperforms all others including McKenzie, Lindenberg & OSC. I've used fridge stratification the past 2 years with WC and that also is very helpful. Much better germination with WC. Then bigger, stronger and faster growing plants.The other companies are fine for lettuce, beans, peas and beefsteak tomato. Other WC herbs that have been fantastic for me the past few years are Dolly Basil and their Cilantro. I've been gardening over 30 years with a lot of trial and error. Usually, more error. But when I find seeds that outperform I stick with them. Thank you for your Canada specific information and honesty.
I have found my perfect brocoli. It's broccolini actually. ARTWORK broccolini. I get brocoli florets all summer and fall in my zone (5b). I do cover it with netting. I just can't starr the seedling indoors...luckily my local greenhouse has them as starts.
I heard that silica helps with not having your produce wilt right away. You mentioned silica in a previous video so I thought that was interesting. Might be worth a try putting some in the soil. A good seaweed fertilizer is an organic option.
I find that all purple veggies attrack less bugs. And purple beans/peas are easier to find on the vine! If you like crispy lettuce, try Ice Queen lettuce!
I grow Purple Mist, Sugar Magnolia (purple snap pea), Golden Yellow (snow pea) and Sugaree (green) all mixed together. I love how pretty all the colours look
We’ve been waiting for this one 🎉🎉🎉 Also, I don’t know why, but when you took a sip of redbull of all things, much respect haha! I just think it’s funny to see other gardeners who are normal people. Sometimes it feels like those obnoxiously health focused gardeners are so condescending. So seeing something just so normal is refreshing. Thank you for being yourself! ❤ You inspire me so much.
I’m zone 3 in Central Alberta & am concentrating on growing more perennials from seed, like Borage, Lovage. I’m going to put them in my permaculture front yard where I have lots of Seabuckthorn, comfrey, Bob Gordon Elderberry, Adams Elderberry, Bergamot, Hollyhock, Calendula (self-seeding, not perennial, Day Lily, Yarrow. It seems that our many Mule deer don’t bother the herbs! For carrots, I’ve done foot wide rows, sprinkled on top & covered (after wetting) with boards & they germinated well. After plants are about 1/2” tall, I remove the boards. My sister puts small seeds on paper towel strips, covers them with a flour paste & adds another layer of paper towel. Then plants them in a row.
That sage is gorgeous! I wasn't able to find it on the Westcoast Seeds site. Laughing because I was never a flower person then I read about companion planting with flowers, then got sucked into this whole landscaping with native plants, THEN I got annual flowers because the people say I need something to fill in scalpy lawn patches while the native perennials grow... Zone 3 in SK. Growing as much as I can of as many things as I can. Right now most excited for carrots (Chantenay and Red Cored Chantenay), purple kale, Sugar Magnolia snap peas, blue jade corn, lovage, Kpa Kpo peppers, Chimayo Peppers (35 days to green and 55 days to red!) and Black Eyed Susans. Questions 1. Do pelleted or coated seeds last less time than regular seeds? I have coated zinnia seeds and am realising I won't be able to plant all the seeds I have in these boxes *welp* 2. Where can I get petunias that *aren't* pink or red?
Hey, I definitely recommended Microgreens from Organic matters as well. Well priced and a canadian company. Weve been growing micros in the winter for a quick nutritious substitute between our lettuce crops in our hydro gardens.
I laughed at your discovery of "more rosemary"! I do that every year with at least one crop. Last year I grew galahad tomatoes and the taste was so good that I had to repurchase for this year, despite the $1 per seed price tag. I am going to buy starts for the rest of my tomatoes, because I really commonly end up with leggy plants, despite the grow lights. With how much you rave about those onions, I'll try them next year. I have already started my onions, so too late for this season.
Great video!! 🎉 I really appreciate all of the info on what can be grown in containers since I don’t have the best plot to have a bunch of beds. I grow lots of varieties of peppers, so those are always on the list, but this year I am definitely trying some of the herb containers, lettuce- some indoors, basil, tomatoes, carrots, microgreens, beets, radish, zucchini. I’m making raised beds, grow bags, and some things are going in decorative beds in the front. 6b - Michigan
Hi Ashley, I looked on your link of seeds, and all of the ones labeled "Unavailable in the US" really ARE available. Here's a list of seedsmen who can probably help us US gardeners: Fedco Seeds; True Leaf; Rare Seeds; Territorial Seeds; Johnny's Seeds; Botanical Interests; Burpee; Select Seeds(hard to find heirloom flowers; and Tomato Fest. Thank you for lighting the seed starting fire within!!!
Just as a bit of clarification from a Canadian, our seed companies have been restricted from selling pepper and tomato seeds to customers in the US. I think it was in 2019 that the USDA put those shipping restrictions in effect, so when you see it noted on Canadian stores that they are not available in the US, it's more that the Canadian company cannot ship them to the US. There are a lot of complexities with selling seeds across borders (for instance, some of the seed companies you listed, like botanical interest, don't ship to Canada at all due to complexities and costs in obtaining all the correct permissions from both sides of the border).
@@angelagreen5144 Thank you so much Angela. I had a dear friend in England, a Head Gardener at an estate, and we had all sorts of problems also. There is international testing rigors, but you are so right, and in my opinion once the seeds have been tested for all sorts of things, we should be able to send and trade and grow all over the world. Lord help us!
@@GardeningInCanada I did that last year it was a mistake. I am going to plant it on the outskirts of my garden away from my veggies as it took a lot of the nutriants from my soil. This year I am going to plant dwarf sunflowers in my raised beds and see how thats going to work.😊
I started all my seeds this week ❤ husband bought me grow lights this week! ? Do I set the under grow light now befor they come up ! Or only when few leafs come up here said six inches I thought was tow ! 🇨🇦from North of Barrie Ontario
Great assortment, thanks for sharing! No green veg this year for us - Yellow zukes, pink beans, purple peas, yellow beets, white cukes.. with so many seed varieties, why not?
Hmmm. That's odd. Romaine is difficult? I'm not the greatest gardener ever by any means, but Little Gem romaine always works super for me. I'm in Edmonton, Alberta, zone 3.
Same with me with rosemary 😂I just go to the local nursery and get organic cuts for 1 $each, ive planted tyme and Cilantro and lavender though, all from burpees seeds this year❤
Lol no , it’s just the conditions where my garden is are almost sud Arctic . I make my own soil from what’s here ( which is very poor soil) I add rabbit poop, moose poop, caribou poop, sea weed and sand for drainage. I grow 6 kinds of potatoes, bright lights Swiss chard, Dutch flat cabbage , carrots, turnips, 3 kinds of garlic, French beans, parsnips and celery. I have grown corn with limited success , this year I might try an Alaskan variety.
I have found squash "Days to harvest" isn't necessarily correct. They need a couple weeks hot weather followed by, at least, two months frost free. The length of time prior to the hot weather isn't as important.
@Ni-dk7ni the plant seems to grow as a cool weather plant. But I've never gotten a female flower before a couple weeks of 22C+ average daily temperature.
My neighbor knows where they don't pay taxes don't judge! I had my own bell pepper seeds that I gathered myself and nearly 100 percent not science but did great and better than the 2 packs of my others that were brought last year. I'm trying to listen about finding seeds in my general location but location isn't always available for the buyer to learn. Thanks
@@GardeningInCanada I could be wrong but I think top set onions, tree onions Egyptian walking onions, are native to Canada. The Potato onion and Welsh onions are also perennial. Not the best place to order from but I ordered Egyptian walking onions from Amazon. The last 2 I'm going to try Etsy.
I’m growing around 70 Carolina reaper plants this year, started seeds back in November and they’re booming now. Any pepper plant varieties you’d recommend as possible breeding choices?
@@GardeningInCanada raspberries-which are starting to come along, blueberries-which haven't produced yet, a black currant that seems to like the front yard and a chokecherry. Would like to find strawberries or other perennial berries that would work. Just having a tough time with the soil we now have which is heavy clay.
Around $200 dollars worth of seeds. Not including what you already have. It might be advisable to save your own seed. I brought my seed hall costs down to $30 dollars from $200 dollars. most of that is for new varieties.
Other women have ridiculous high heal shoe and clothing hauls. Real women have seed hauls. But like the other ladies with overstuffed closets, I sometimes get too excited when I look at the seed catalogues and have too many unrealistic time lines, and buy more seeds than I have room or time to grow.
Is this a duplicate video? Something at youtube is weird, I get suggested multiple copies of the same video. I have to downvote the duplicates i guess.
This list should include nearly all the seeds I showed today West Coast bit.ly/48gKaaZ
celery? i started same time as onions they take long to get up to size of transplant
Orangelo Thyme is an interesting alternative to the lemon variety
I'm glad I'm not the only one obsessed with purple crops.
I also went for purples: kohlrabi, sprouting broccoli, burgundy pod bush beans, and Japanese radish. I have my fingers cross d as I’m starting a new garden on the Oregon coast.
It is such a beautiful colour! I am excited about purple bush beans, purple snap peas and purple kale this year. I was thinking of getting a lot of purple basil to use in my front lawn as ground cover but stopped myself.
Wanted to second West Coast rosemary seed. I've been starting my own rosemary for the past 5 years and WC really outperforms all others including McKenzie, Lindenberg & OSC. I've used fridge stratification the past 2 years with WC and that also is very helpful. Much better germination with WC. Then bigger, stronger and faster growing plants.The other companies are fine for lettuce, beans, peas and beefsteak tomato. Other WC herbs that have been fantastic for me the past few years are Dolly Basil and their Cilantro. I've been gardening over 30 years with a lot of trial and error. Usually, more error. But when I find seeds that outperform I stick with them. Thank you for your Canada specific information and honesty.
The germination is insane
Trying rosemary from a small seed company I bought tree seeds from. They’re definitely slow and under impressive. Might have to try WC
I have found my perfect brocoli. It's broccolini actually. ARTWORK broccolini. I get brocoli florets all summer and fall in my zone (5b). I do cover it with netting.
I just can't starr the seedling indoors...luckily my local greenhouse has them as starts.
+1 for broccolini. It is fantastic. Flea beetles love it, but that’s no surprise.
Your mom and grandma are proud♥🍅
Thank you!
crunch level stats!!!! genius!!!
I would seriously purchase lettuce just based on that. It’s not not a huge factor for what lettuce you eat?!
@@GardeningInCanadauncrunchy lettuce should be illegal 😂
I heard that silica helps with not having your produce wilt right away. You mentioned silica in a previous video so I thought that was interesting. Might be worth a try putting some in the soil. A good seaweed fertilizer is an organic option.
Spring is coming😍
Definitely feels like it 🫠
We’ve been in spring for weeks now it seems down in Houston, so nice!
We give out seeds all the time and love your seed haul GROW BIG
I find that all purple veggies attrack less bugs. And purple beans/peas are easier to find on the vine!
If you like crispy lettuce, try Ice Queen lettuce!
Win - Win, beautiful to look at and less pests, thanks for the tip!
I grow Purple Mist, Sugar Magnolia (purple snap pea), Golden Yellow (snow pea) and Sugaree (green) all mixed together. I love how pretty all the colours look
Oh yes!
Never thought I'd be excited for a seed unboxing review. Great video and ideas!
Glad you enjoyed!
We’ve been waiting for this one 🎉🎉🎉 Also, I don’t know why, but when you took a sip of redbull of all things, much respect haha! I just think it’s funny to see other gardeners who are normal people. Sometimes it feels like those obnoxiously health focused gardeners are so condescending. So seeing something just so normal is refreshing. Thank you for being yourself! ❤ You inspire me so much.
I am not an image of Health 😂😂
You should give watermelon a try! I’m also zone 3 and grew 2 varieties last year. This year trying 4 haha
Do you remember what varieties they were
Would love to know which varieties you grew.
I’m zone 3 in Central Alberta & am concentrating on growing more perennials from seed, like Borage, Lovage. I’m going to put them in my permaculture front yard where I have lots of Seabuckthorn, comfrey, Bob Gordon Elderberry, Adams Elderberry, Bergamot, Hollyhock, Calendula (self-seeding, not perennial, Day Lily, Yarrow. It seems that our many Mule deer don’t bother the herbs!
For carrots, I’ve done foot wide rows, sprinkled on top & covered (after wetting) with boards & they germinated well. After plants are about 1/2” tall, I remove the boards. My sister puts small seeds on paper towel strips, covers them with a flour paste & adds another layer of paper towel. Then plants them in a row.
I love seabuckthorn. I had a drink made from it once and it was so good
That sage is gorgeous! I wasn't able to find it on the Westcoast Seeds site.
Laughing because I was never a flower person then I read about companion planting with flowers, then got sucked into this whole landscaping with native plants, THEN I got annual flowers because the people say I need something to fill in scalpy lawn patches while the native perennials grow...
Zone 3 in SK. Growing as much as I can of as many things as I can. Right now most excited for carrots (Chantenay and Red Cored Chantenay), purple kale, Sugar Magnolia snap peas, blue jade corn, lovage, Kpa Kpo peppers, Chimayo Peppers (35 days to green and 55 days to red!) and Black Eyed Susans.
Questions
1. Do pelleted or coated seeds last less time than regular seeds? I have coated zinnia seeds and am realising I won't be able to plant all the seeds I have in these boxes *welp*
2. Where can I get petunias that *aren't* pink or red?
1. They do last less time in the packages
Wow that's a lot of varieties
I will thank you NOW! Spicy containers everywhere this year🎉🎉🎉 thanks! ✌️from South River, ON
Hope you enjoy!
Hey, I definitely recommended Microgreens from Organic matters as well. Well priced and a canadian company. Weve been growing micros in the winter for a quick nutritious substitute between our lettuce crops in our hydro gardens.
Thanks for sharing
@@GardeningInCanada You're welcome.
Love the video. Made me double check my haul and see what i missed and what looks fun to grow.
Happy seed starting
Awesome! Thank you!
I’m intrigued by the WCS wasabi radish, look forward to seeing that in your garden!
Me too!
I grew the Wasabi radish last year from WC. They did great.
I also loooove the Fall Spooky Season. And purple veg 😉
I think we need...
PURPLE PUMPKINS!!!
Lol 🥰🥰
I laughed at your discovery of "more rosemary"! I do that every year with at least one crop. Last year I grew galahad tomatoes and the taste was so good that I had to repurchase for this year, despite the $1 per seed price tag. I am going to buy starts for the rest of my tomatoes, because I really commonly end up with leggy plants, despite the grow lights. With how much you rave about those onions, I'll try them next year. I have already started my onions, so too late for this season.
I have an overload of seeds 😅
Great video!! 🎉 I really appreciate all of the info on what can be grown in containers since I don’t have the best plot to have a bunch of beds. I grow lots of varieties of peppers, so those are always on the list, but this year I am definitely trying some of the herb containers, lettuce- some indoors, basil, tomatoes, carrots, microgreens, beets, radish, zucchini. I’m making raised beds, grow bags, and some things are going in decorative beds in the front. 6b - Michigan
Glad it was helpful!
Hi Ashley, I looked on your link of seeds, and all of the ones labeled "Unavailable in the US" really ARE available. Here's a list of seedsmen who can probably help us US gardeners: Fedco Seeds; True Leaf; Rare Seeds; Territorial Seeds; Johnny's Seeds; Botanical Interests; Burpee; Select Seeds(hard to find heirloom flowers; and Tomato Fest. Thank you for lighting the seed starting fire within!!!
Just as a bit of clarification from a Canadian, our seed companies have been restricted from selling pepper and tomato seeds to customers in the US. I think it was in 2019 that the USDA put those shipping restrictions in effect, so when you see it noted on Canadian stores that they are not available in the US, it's more that the Canadian company cannot ship them to the US. There are a lot of complexities with selling seeds across borders (for instance, some of the seed companies you listed, like botanical interest, don't ship to Canada at all due to complexities and costs in obtaining all the correct permissions from both sides of the border).
@@angelagreen5144 Thank you so much Angela. I had a dear friend in England, a Head Gardener at an estate, and we had all sorts of problems also. There is international testing rigors, but you are so right, and in my opinion once the seeds have been tested for all sorts of things, we should be able to send and trade and grow all over the world. Lord help us!
Heads up. Borage grows massive so you probably going to need a big container 😊
I was thinking of placing it in raised beds
@@GardeningInCanada I did that last year it was a mistake. I am going to plant it on the outskirts of my garden away from my veggies as it took a lot of the nutriants from my soil. This year I am going to plant dwarf sunflowers in my raised beds and see how thats going to work.😊
💖💖 Pretty please, Ashley, I love Korean sweet potatoes but I failed at growing, as a newbie. Can you please grow this??? It's delicious!
Lovely
Thank you ❤
I started all my seeds this week ❤ husband bought me grow lights this week! ? Do I set the under grow light now befor they come up ! Or only when few leafs come up here said six inches I thought was tow ! 🇨🇦from North of Barrie Ontario
Yup! Get them under asap.
Great assortment, thanks for sharing! No green veg this year for us - Yellow zukes, pink beans, purple peas, yellow beets, white cukes.. with so many seed varieties, why not?
Color is so important! You don’t get bored then
Sooooo excited for this video!!! Such amazing choices
Yay! Thank you!
Good luck..
& thanks for the loofah reminder.. lol.. thankfully I live in southern Ontario..
😊😊
No worries!
Hmmm. That's odd. Romaine is difficult? I'm not the greatest gardener ever by any means, but Little Gem romaine always works super for me. I'm in Edmonton, Alberta, zone 3.
Romaine works! I just don’t like having a bunch of seedlings that needs transplants. Prefer a direct sown lettice
Great seed haul!!
Thank you!
Same with me with rosemary 😂I just go to the local nursery and get organic cuts for 1 $each, ive planted tyme and Cilantro and lavender though, all from burpees seeds this year❤
Yea some stuff is best from a nursery I agree ❤️
Corn: just plant enough. Maybe 5 - 8plants, maybe in a mineral tub.
Love your channel, doing the same planning for my “ Sub Arctic “ here in Newfoundland 🥔🧄🧅🥬🥦🌽🫐
Welcome aboard!
I’ve been a fan since day one !
“Sub Arctic Garden” ( it’s called the Rock for a reason )
Is that actually its nickname?
Lol no , it’s just the conditions where my garden is are almost sud Arctic . I make my own soil from what’s here ( which is very poor soil) I add rabbit poop, moose poop, caribou poop, sea weed and sand for drainage. I grow 6 kinds of potatoes, bright lights Swiss chard, Dutch flat cabbage , carrots, turnips, 3 kinds of garlic, French beans, parsnips and celery. I have grown corn with limited success , this year I might try an Alaskan variety.
Hello! Thank you for the video and ideas. Do you grow your lettuce under lights? I’d love to try mine on a sill (not sure if it’ll work in zone 6)…
Yes you would need to
I have found squash "Days to harvest" isn't necessarily correct. They need a couple weeks hot weather followed by, at least, two months frost free. The length of time prior to the hot weather isn't as important.
@Ni-dk7ni the plant seems to grow as a cool weather plant. But I've never gotten a female flower before a couple weeks of 22C+ average daily temperature.
Melons I definitely find this to be the case
Your hair is looking 🔥🔥
Awe thanks!!!
My neighbor knows where they don't pay taxes don't judge!
I had my own bell pepper seeds that I gathered myself and nearly 100 percent not science but did great and better than the 2 packs of my others that were brought last year.
I'm trying to listen about finding seeds in my general location but location isn't always available for the buyer to learn.
Thanks
Awesome!!
Great video thank you. Have you ever grown any perennial onions?
No, I’ve never given those a shot before. Honestly I’ve never even really seen them for sale in my area.
@@GardeningInCanada I could be wrong but I think top set onions, tree onions Egyptian walking onions, are native to Canada. The Potato onion and Welsh onions are also perennial. Not the best place to order from but I ordered Egyptian walking onions from Amazon. The last 2 I'm going to try Etsy.
i agree lemon thyme tastes weird and is the variegated one. Smells nice though
I’m growing around 70 Carolina reaper plants this year, started seeds back in November and they’re booming now. Any pepper plant varieties you’d recommend as possible breeding choices?
Do you want to go hotter or milder? 😅
@@GardeningInCanada spicier than a habanero but something more mild than a reaper
@@GardeningInCanada I already have a Serrano bush, bunch of Thai peppers and habanero growing 😅 wouldn’t mind a dozen or more varieties
So okra can be sown in fall/winter, like peas? Good to know. Is it too late for me in zone 6 US to do that? One less thing to start inside 😅
Oh no! Not okra that’s a spring time start
@@GardeningInCanada ok I must have heard you wrong then when you said something was already outside, like peas 🤷♀️🙃
@@GardeningInCanadajust listened to the end again and I swear you say okra is already in the ground…what are you actually saying? I’m so confused 😅
What is the purple Sage called? I was looking for different sages months ago and could only find regular Sage.
i forgot to start my lettuce seeds for my greenhouse this year so i cheated and potted up some "living lettuce" from superstore lol
One question, do you have berry recommendations? Im starting over in a new yard with heavy clay soil. Zone 3 just south of you
What have you all tried? Haskaps do awesome here
@@GardeningInCanada raspberries-which are starting to come along, blueberries-which haven't produced yet, a black currant that seems to like the front yard and a chokecherry. Would like to find strawberries or other perennial berries that would work. Just having a tough time with the soil we now have which is heavy clay.
I’m in a zone three, and have never started petunias seeds before, when do you start yours?
This month!
Around $200 dollars worth of seeds. Not including what you already have. It might be advisable to save your own seed. I brought my seed hall costs down to $30 dollars from $200 dollars. most of that is for new varieties.
So if you save the pea seeds, would they produce the purple pods? Or are the second generation green. I hope you understand my question…🤦🏻♀️
Oh no all purple
Peas: can you eat all pea pod shells?
Yup! It’s just the texture that can turn ppl off.
Other women have ridiculous high heal shoe and clothing hauls. Real women have seed hauls. But like the other ladies with overstuffed closets, I sometimes get too excited when I look at the seed catalogues and have too many unrealistic time lines, and buy more seeds than I have room or time to grow.
BAHAH! Yes this is accurate
Maybe silly question: where can I get petunias that *aren't* pink or red?
Seed wise? Or at the stores? Million bells tend to have a lot of colour.
@@GardeningInCanada Both?
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Is this a duplicate video? Something at youtube is weird, I get suggested multiple copies of the same video. I have to downvote the duplicates i guess.
Shouldn’t be. I just did this video today
Weird. usually videos i have already seen dont end up back in my recommendations.@@GardeningInCanada
I wouldn't downvote duplicates, you might accidentally start seeing less of Ashley.